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ACS meets with Home Secretary to discuss response to disorder
ACS has called for government to promote the message that ‘people are more important than property’ in a meeting with Home Secretary Theresa May yesterday afternoon.The meeting, attended by ACS chief executive James Lowman and other business representatives, was called to discuss the impact of the recent riots across the ...
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Tax and red tape seen as barriers to environmentalism
Small businesses believe going green can boost their bottom line – but see tax and red tape as major barriers to becoming more environmentally friendly, according to Forum of Private Business research.Just 10% of business owners responding to the Forum’s latest environmental panel survey have done nothing to reduce steep ...
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Hit-and-run driver kills three at Jet site in Birmingham
A Jet petrol station on Dudley Road in Winston Green, Birmingham has become a crime scene following the death of three men after they were hit by a car in the early hours of this morning.The forecourt, which had been attacked by looters the previous night, will remain closed while ...
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Three jailed for bulk fuel theft
Three men have been jailed for a total of eight years and eleven months after admitting conspiracy to steal tens of thousands of pounds worth of fuel from petrol forecourts across the Midlands. The charge related to a number of offences committed between July 2010 and January 2011 and followed ...
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NewsForecourts caught up in London riots
Riot police broke up an attack on a Texaco-branded site on Mare Street in Hackney last night and other petrol stations around London were forced to close as rioting intensified. MRH Retail closed five sites as a precaution on Monday night, including its Waddon Court site in Croydon, ...
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AA poll shows cost more important than speed
Speed is not an important factor for 97% of motorists in considering whether they would use High Speed Rail, according to an AA/Populus poll of 16,850 Automobile Association members.Drivers are divided on whether they would use High Speed Rail if available for a journey they usually make by car – ...
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AA poll shows cost more important than speed
Speed is not an important factor for 97% of motorists in considering whether they would use High Speed Rail, according to an AA/Populus poll of 16,850 Automobile Association members.Drivers are divided on whether they would use High Speed Rail if available for a journey they usually make by car – ...
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Amscreen Group acquires Digicom sales operation
Lord Sugar’s Amscreen, the UK’s largest nationwide digital out-of-home network owner, has announced that it has acquired the entire sales and marketing operation of Digicom.Digicom founder Tom Goddard will become deputy chairman and shareholder of Amscreen, and will support CEO Simon Sugar in the key areas of media sales and ...
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ACS urges retailers to stay away from counterfeit alcohol
HM Revenue and Customs are to clamp down on stores suspected of selling counterfeit alcohol with a series of raids across the UK.The operation has been rolled out nationwide after a successful pilot scheme which targeted stores in Peterborough, Newcastle, Lincolnshire and Hertfordshire led to 16 outlets having their alcohol ...
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Online shoppers embrace flexible parcel service
Customer data from Collect+ reveals that people are increasingly using the service to send and receive parcels outside working hours.Rejecting the rigid opening hours of traditional drop-off points, consumers have embraced the service, with a 19% increase in parcels being sent and received outside normal business hours in May 2011, ...
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Subway set to treble its non-traditional network
The Subway chain has announced that 3,000 jobs will be created in the next five years as part of its plans to treble the number of non-traditional outlets across the UK and Ireland.Currently the chain has more than 1,500 stores in the UK and Ireland, with more than 150 Subway ...
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NewsEuro Garages on expansion trail in the wake of buoyant trading and £110m funding agreement
Euro Garages, the privately owned forecourt retail group chaired by former Asda chief executive Andy Bond, has reported continued growth in sales and profits and announced a £110m funding agreement to step up its site acquisition programme. In its latest annual trading update, the Blackburn-based group ...
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NewsSale of Chevron to Valero completed
Valero Energy Corporation has completed the purchase of Chevron’s Pembroke refinery in Wales, as well as extensive marketing and logistics assets throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland. The purchase price was $730 million, excluding working capital, and was funded from available cash. “We have been looking for several years at ...
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ACS welcomes red tape cuts
ACS has welcomed Business Secretary Vince Cable’s announcement today that a number of retail regulations will be cut.The proposals are the first results from the Red Tape Challenge, a public consultation that asked businesses and individuals which regulations are unnecessary and should be removed.The proposals include: simplifying the procedures for ...
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Big jump in second quarter net profits for Shell
Royal Dutch Shell announced second quarter 2011 earnings of $8 billion compared with $4.5 billion the same quarter a year ago. The company’s CEO Peter Voser said the rise was driven by increased energy prices and Shell’s operating performance."Shell reinvests its profits to meet customer demand for low-cost energy, and ...
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Hand car wash warning
Forecourt owners should be wary of installing hand wash people on their forecourts, Dave Lindon, business development director at Istobal has warned.“There are many issues to consider,” said Lindon. “These include your customers being approached by people to get their vehicles washed when all they want to do is buy ...
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Indie retailer helps government with flood prevention
Independent forecourt retailer Charles Richards, who runs St Blazey Service Station in Cornwall with his father Barrie, is helping the government with flood prevention. As chairman of the Par and St Blazey Community Flood Group, Charles has been asked to submit a case study to appear on the Cabinet Office ...
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Skydiving for peace
Staff from Top 50 Indie Sewell Retail are taking part in a skydive on Sunday July 31 to raise money for Peace One Day.The activity is taking place at the Old Sarum Airfield in Salisbury, Wiltshire. In all, 32 Peace One Day supporters will be taking part. Sewell Retail’s operations ...
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Amscreen expands into Europe
Amscreen, the UK’s largest nationwide digital media network owner, is expanding to foreign shores for the first time following a deal with BP Europe SE. The contract will see digital signage screens installed in forecourts across the continent initially in Germany, Poland, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Austria.Amscreen claims to have established ...
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NewsWelcome Break installs first motorway electric car-charging point
Welcome Break’s South Mimms services on the Junction of the M1 and M25 has become the first site on the motorway to offer an electric car-charging point for electric vehicles. The ‘top-up zone’ at South Mimms is part of Ecotricity’s first installation phase of a national motorway network of electric ...